Balscote / Balscott
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11965BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Church / Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, Balscote
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Shutford Rd, Balscote, Banbury OX15 6JQ, United Kingdom
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A422, 6-7 km W of Banbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Font Notes:
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The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "the font N[orman], large and plain." Tub-shaped basin on a short circular lower base; flat wooden cover; new lead lining. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 9, 1969) notes: "The chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, Balscott, [...] appears to have been rebuilt in the early 14th century, but retains a tub-shaped font and part of a tympanum, both of which may be late-12th-century." Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, with a moulded base."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [unpaged -- entry 154] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 428